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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/10/2021 14:02:44

Title: Why don't pills kill neck and back pain?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 25/10/2021 14:02:44

Therapeutic stretches I find on youtube are the only answers for this. If my field was medicine, I would acknowledge that millions or billions of people are too lazy for such stretching and would try to find a way to solve this medicinal-wise and make billions of dollars.

Title: Re: Why don't pills kill neck and back pain?
Post by: alancalverd on 25/10/2021 15:32:00

Problem is that pills only treat the symptom. If the cause is muscular or neural-compression, the cure needs to be at least partially mechanical.  The beauty of exercise and (reasonably expert) manipulation is the absence of side effects.

Title: Re: Why don't pills kill neck and back pain?
Post by: evan_au on 25/10/2021 21:32:36

Double-blind tests have shown that there are a number of conditions for which painkiller pills are no better than placebo pills.

Unfortunately, the active pills often had severe side-effects, like the opioids are highly addictive, producing a steady stream of withdrawal symptoms for the patient whenever they tried to stop them, and a steady revenue stream for the manufacturer.

This had reached such a state of abuse in the USA that FDA  severely restricted the use of opioid painkillers over the past couple of years.